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I think it's just someone lying again. Stanford is known for not doing a lot of interviews. Plus the guy says interviewed (out of the blue) yesterday, and first admission today. And nothing to correlate it on the forum. I don't think you should pay attention to those two entries. Georgia tech works in waves. When you get the result depends on when you applied for the program. If you applied close to the deadline, then you probably won't be notified before march, I guess.

Yep, from that master's, and I knew that already. Each year, they take one or two of the best students (most often, students who have around 5-6 A+ and A for the rest) and reject the rest. Problem is, given the serious issues of academic integrity at Columbia IEOR, those students are sometimes (NOT ALWAYS, and I know the admitted student this year is definitely EXCELLENT) those who spent the year copying the solutions from the solution textbooks (that they got illegally, obviously) and memorizing the exercises that will be on the exam (and there are sometimes serious leaks on that side). Plus, some students are favored in the grading process by CAs and TAs from the same foreign undergrads as them, and in the application process by powerful professors who give priority to applicants who share the same citizenship/language (and honestly, that's how I got admitted in master's in IEOR at Columbia) - you will understand what I mean if you look at the list of PhD students in IEOR at Columbia. About the admissions, they've sent rejections from tuesday until yesterday, and they have added people to the waitlist yesterday; the decisions were not complete on Feb 4th. I am also curious about Stanford and Berkeley (especially the latter one) too. Does anyone has any news?

22, have my master's already, applying to PhD

Sorry, but that one is TRUE, at least in engineering (trust me, I'm a grad student at Columbia, and you will see almost no american people in the engineering programs; in average, 15% are french - my case - 30% are indian, and 30% are chinese, the rest for some other European or Asian countries, as well as a few North African students + 1/2 american students in each prog. And this actually gets worse when you look at the PhD programs, that are constituted of 75% of chinese students + one or two european student and sometimes one Indian student that gets lost there). Honestly, I won't deny the only reason I got accepted as a master's student at Columbia in 2011 is my french citizenship ; with the exact same application, if I was American, I would not even have been considered for an interview. The ones I hate most: "Oh you're applying for PhD? Oh, you've got good grades and you're smart, you'll be fine" (isn't is the case of EVERY SINGLE applicant to a PhD program?) "What would you do a PhD in the US anyway? You should have stayed in France, our master's degree are so much better. Especially for people coming from your school, you should be able to get a good managerial position within 4 or 5 years. It's stupid to try to get more knowledge - and you will be paid with money from my taxes !!!??! - when you can immediately get money" (no comment on that one. That's just super arrogant, proof of immense stupidity, and THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT TO DO ANYWAY. No wonder we're so bad at anything closely related to research)

Master's applicants usually get the interview and results later than PhD applicant. Don't worry yet, you still have some time before the master's admissions are decided

Not all of them, only half. The rest will be sent on Monday, and if you haven't received the email today saying that your application is still being processed, I guess that you've been rejected (even though you will be notified only next week). I'm in this case too, which I don't particularly appreciate given my master's GPA at Columbia and the fact that I've been performing already several months of UNPAID research for them.